Brainstorm Week 10 - Teresa Bonilla

Ovarian Psychos/Cycles is a group that was created to form a community for women and to reclaim the spaces from which they have been excluded. It is about riding bikes and convivencia, but it is also about fighting back. At 21:27 they recite, what seems to be their mission statement or their creed, and express that themes that were presented through out the beginning of the film, that they are cycling to heal, their communities physically and emotionally. Part of it is that physical meeting with other women and the planning of events to bring them together. Additionally within that they are working to help better themselves, each other and their communities by creating strong women with a sense of community, and idea that once again brings me back to the idea of commoning and post capitalist thinking in our everyday life with the small ways that we reject it and return to the past.

Looking at Girls rock we see chicanafuturism as we see women empowering themselves through art. Women working together and like the Ovarian Psychos finding a community of other women with which to move through the world.